You have no idea, how I wanted it to work!!! The review starts happily and tends to deteriorate as I struggle with it. F1.23 is much better from a stability stand point (no freeze so far), but it's still infuriating that Cowon releases players for testing... I'm curious as to what Koreans think of the player and I would recommend Cowon holds the release of the player in the US and Europe until they have a more stable & performing firmware (Froyo).

I agree with the OP that the D3 sucks in its current state. Why on earth did Cowon a release a product which obviously is unusable and fails on very simple tasks?
I'd rather buy a fully developed product instead of a device which always freezes and lags.

However, I think the D3 will become better after some FW releases. That's Cowon's strategy after all.

^ But FW update can't resolve hard reset.
Even J3 sometimes freeze so reset is a must.
Edit: on second though when my laptop freeze I press and hold power button and computer shut down,so,I wonder if something similar works with D3.

While I do trust that Cowon will eventually get it right through FW updates, its just so disappointing that they'd release a player in such poor condition. They have so much time before a release to get things right, so why not take the time to do so? Keep the bugs and what not to a minimum upon release so that not much is expected of the company from their future firmware releases. It just feels like they may have spent too much time making the UI look pretty rather than getting down to making this as smooth a player as they could have.

While I do trust that Cowon will eventually get it right through FW updates, its just so disappointing that they'd release a player in such poor condition. They have so much time before a release to get things right, so why not take the time to do so? Keep the bugs and what not to a minimum upon release so that not much is expected of the company from their future firmware releases. It just feels like they may have spent too much time making the UI look pretty rather than getting down to making this as smooth a player as they could have.

exactly my thoughts. they should have down it right before release not after.
this "abusing customers as beta testers" ethos gets on my nerves.

products have become more sophisticated over the last few years, no doubt about that. but debug tools have become even more sophisticated and human debuggers have become more knowledgeable as well.

i'm pretty sure the D3 was rushed to the market,( like so many Cowon products in the past) in order to compete with the stuff that's going to be released this year (e.g. galaxy player)

they will eventually make it better over the course of a year, i guess, but how are you going to communicate that to the average customer:" we know you paid for a working device. and it works. we didn't promise it will work flawlessly, but we're going to change that. isn't that nice."

Sounds like their first attempt using android, and they aren't that good at it yet. I expect them to catch up quick though. They have to be reading the bad reviews, and it appears they are pushing out quick updates rather than sit on it.